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Your Classroom Library: New Ways to Give It More Teaching Power Great Teacher-Tested and Research-Based Strategies for Organizing and Using Your Library to Increase Students? Reading Achievement

by: Reutzel, Ray; Fawson, Parker; Parker, Fawson

Your Classroom Library: New Ways to Give It More Teaching Power Great Teacher-Tested and Research-Based Strategies for Organizing and Using Your Library to Increase Students? Reading Achievement

by: Reutzel, Ray; Fawson, Parker; Parker, Fawson

ISBN 13:
9780439260824
ISBN 10:
0439260825
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 06/01/2002
Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching

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Summary

Ready to go far beyond the usual classroom book collection to make your library a dynamic support for all your literacy teaching? In this practical, one-of-a-kind book, two veteran educators show you how to use your library as: A resource for mini-lessons on book selection, author's craft, comprehension strategies and other literacy lessons. A source for interactive read-alouds. An extension of your shared-reading and guided-reading instruction. A motivating place for students' independent reading in many genres. A gallery of student book responses, recommendations, and student-authored works. And much more!

Creating and Sustaining an Effective Classroom Library

(24)

The Growing Importance of the Classroom Library

(2)

The Place of the Classroom Library in a Balanced Reading Program

(1)

Five Major Functions of the Classroom Library

(5)

Planning Your Classroom Library

(9)

Determine the Nature of the Collection

(1)

Establish the Size of the Collection

(1)

Build Your Collection

(5)

Use the Collection for Responses to Reading

(2)

What an Effective Classroom Library Looks Like: Organization and Layout

(6)

Organize to Help Accomplish Your Major Goals

(2)

Other Criteria and Practices for Organizing the Classroom Library

(4)

Helping Children Make Successful Book Selections

(22)

What Children Do When Selecting Books

(3)

Four Book Selection Strategies

(1)

Factors That Influence Book Selection

(4)

Personal Valuing

(1)

Physical Characteristics

(1)

Topics or Themes

(1)

Genre and Author Preference

(1)

Personal Recommendations

(1)

Character Knowledge

(1)

Displays and Read Alouds

(1)

Arranging Your Classroom Library to Guide and Influence Children's Book Selection

(5)

Label Shelves

(1)

Post Directions

(1)

Display Books With Covers Facing Out

(1)

Use Posters and Whiteboards

(1)

Use Chart Pads for Showing Connections Among Books

(1)

Organize Books Logically

(1)

Set Up Books at Children's Eye Level

(1)

What You Can Do to Give Children Appropriate Strategies for Book Selection

(9)

Ensuring Equal Access for All Students

(1)

Getting to Know the Library

(1)

Book Talks

(1)

Finding a Book to Read

(3)

Checking the Reading Level

(1)

How Does the Classroom Library Support Reading to Children?

(18)

Why We Should Read Aloud to Children in the First Place

(17)

Some Historical Perspective

(1)

Interactive Read-Alouds

(15)

How Does the Classroom Library Support Reading With Children?

(26)

Use Your Classroom Library to Make Shared Reading Come Alive

(3)

What Is Shared Reading?

(1)

How to Conduct a Shared Reading or Shared Book Experience

(1)

Put the Classroom Library at the Core of Shared Reading

(1)

Use Your Classroom Library to Make Guided Reading Come Alive

(14)

Primary Grades

(1)

Intermediate Grades

(1)

Gather Guided Reading Books to Provide That ``Just Right'' Match

(8)

Put Books at the Core of Intermediate-Grade Mini-Lessons

(2)

Put Books at the Core of Intermediate-Grade Literature Response Group Meetings

(2)

Use Your Classroom Library to Make the Reading-Writing Connection Come Alive

(4)

Writer's Craft Mini-Lessons

(3)

Use Your Classroom Library to Make the Reading-Writing Connection Come Alive

(1)

Use Your Classroom Library to Reinforce Reading and Language Instruction

(4)

Word Solving

(1)

Finding the Important Information

(1)

Making Predictions

(2)

How Does the Classroom Library Support Reading by Children?

(18)

Why It Is Important for Students to Participate in Voluntary Reading

(3)

How Motivation for Voluntary Reading Is Influenced by Ready Access to Books

101

(1)

The Role of the Classroom Library in Motivating and Supporting Voluntary Reading

102

(10)

Focus on One Factor in an Effective Classroom Library: The Element of Student Choice

102

(1)

Determine Students' Interests

102

(4)

Include Books That Represent All Genres

106

(3)

Include Books That Represent Cultural and Ethnic Diversity

109

(3)

Integrate the Classroom Library and Instruction That Supports Independent Reading

112

(3)

Selected References

115

(3)

Selected Children's Books

118

(5)

Independent Reading Management Forms

123

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Your Classroom Library: New Ways to Give It More Teaching Power Great Teacher-Tested and Research-Based Strategies for Organizing and Using Your Library to Increase Students? Reading Achievement

Your Classroom Library: New Ways to Give It More Teaching Power Great Teacher-Tested and Research-Based Strategies for Organizing and Using Your Library to Increase Students? Reading Achievement

9780439260824

0439260825

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